POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS FOR OPERATION

• US 20090259149A1
• Filed: 04/15/2008
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: SHIMIZU, Koh, TAHARA, Naoko
• Application Number:
  US12/103,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20090259149A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/320092 with additional movable means for clamping or cutting tissue, e.g. with a pivoting jaw
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00084 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00482 with a code
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320095 with sealing or cauterizing means

Abstract

A power supply apparatus for operation for outputting power to a surgical instrument includes a resonant frequency detection section for detecting a resonant frequency which minimizes the impedance of the surgical instrument, and an abnormality detection section for detecting whether or not a value of the resonant frequency or a variation amount of the resonant frequency per unit time exceeds a predetermined numerical range or a reference variation value. The predetermined numerical range or the reference variation value is set on the basis of a value and a variation amount of the resonant frequency corresponding to a temperature change of the surgical instrument. By detecting an abnormality in this manner, the surgical instrument can be prevented from being broken.

Claims

1. A power supply apparatus for operation for outputting power to a surgical instrument comprising:

a resonant frequency detection section for detecting a resonant frequency which minimizes the impedance of the surgical instrument;

a resonant frequency setting section for setting in advance an allowable variation amount of the resonant frequency per unit time as a reference variation amount; and

an abnormality detection section for detecting whether or not a detected variation amount of the resonant frequency per unit time exceeds the reference variation amount.

2. The power supply apparatus for operation according to claim 1, further comprising a temperature detection section for detecting a temperature of the surgical instrument, wherein the reference variation amount is a variation amount of the resonant frequency which varies in accordance with an amount of change in the temperature of the surgical instrument detected by the temperature detection section.

3. The power supply apparatus for operation according to claim 2, wherein

in the resonant frequency setting section, an allowable predetermined numerical range of the resonant frequency is further set, and

the abnormality detection section further detects whether or not the resonant frequency detected by the resonant frequency detection section is within the predetermined numerical range.

4. The power supply apparatus for operation according to claim 3, wherein the abnormality detection section detects whether or not the detected resonant frequency is within the predetermined numerical range of the resonant frequency corresponding to the temperature of the surgical instrument detected in advance.

5. The power supply apparatus for operation according to claim 4, further comprising a surgical instrument recognition section for recognizing the type of a connected surgical instrument, wherein

the abnormality detection section detects whether or not the resonant frequency detected by the resonant frequency detection section is within the predetermined numerical range corresponding to the surgical instrument recognized by the surgical instrument recognition section.

6. The power supply apparatus for operation according to claim 5, wherein when the detected variation amount of the resonant frequency per unit time exceeds the reference variation amount, or when the detected resonant frequency is not within the predetermined numerical range corresponding to the temperature and the type of the surgical instrument, the abnormality detection section stops the power supply to the surgical instrument.

7. The power supply apparatus for operation according to claim 3, wherein the abnormality detection section detects whether or not the detected resonant frequency is within the predetermined numerical range corresponding to the predetermined temperature change of the surgical instrument.